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Lorne Balfe

Lorne Balfe

Composer · Born February 23, 1976 (50) · Inverness, Scotland, UK

Primetime Emmy nominee · BAFTA Award nominee · 1 other major award body

Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish composer of film, television and video game scores.  A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, Balfe's scoring credits include the films Megamind, Penguins of Madagascar, Home, Terminator Genisys, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Lego Batman Movie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout and its sequel Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Bad Boys for Life and its sequel Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Black Widow, Black Adam, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Gran Turismo, and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, as well as the video games Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Assassin's Creed III, Crysis 2, Skylanders, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He has also scored the television series The Bible, Marcella, The Crown, and Genius, the latter for which he earned a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. He also collaborates with directors Michael Bay, Chris McKay, Christopher McQuarrie, Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, and Mikael Håfström. He composed the new fanfare for Skydance Media transcribed as There's a World, There's A Moon. Balfe also composed the Annapurna Pictures deep note opening logo. Balfe is also involved in The Game Awards, serving as the conductor of the Game Awards Orchestra and the composer and arranger of several musical performances featured at the show. Since The Game Awards 2018, he has composed a medley of the themes of the six nominees for Game of the Year each year, presented as the award at the end of the show. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorne Balfe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
February 23, 1976 (50)
From
Inverness, Scotland, UK
Works as
Composer
Titles
114 on MovieCove · 144 credits in all
TMDB popularity, last 155 days to Oct 26Down 28% in 30 days

What are Lorne Balfe's films like?

Across their 82 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Morality.

What they feel like to watch

their average across 70 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

A split, not a type: Light 26 · Serious 21 · Dark 23

A split, not a type: Grounded 33 · Stylized 20 · Heightened 17

A split, not a type: Gentle 6 · Charged 27 · Intense 37

Steady 21 · Shifting 40 · Whiplash 9

A split, not a type: Straight-faced 36 · Some laughs 16 · Funny 18

Slow burn 17 · Even-paced 29 · Relentless 24

Casual 25 · Engaged 37 · Full focus 8

A split, not a type: Easy watch 30 · Affecting 21 · Heavy 19

Resolved 57 · Open-ended 10 · Ambiguous 3

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
47
Thrilling
33
Hopeful
26
Melancholic
23
Dread
13
Other
88

How their films end · 17 with a twist

  • Happy29
  • Bittersweet39
  • Tragic2
  • Ambiguous9
  • Cyclical2
  • Other1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Lorne Balfe's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 90 of their 114 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (22).

Subscription and free streaming for Lorne Balfe's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

144 credits, 114 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.

  • The Cat in the Hat (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    Composer

  • 7 Dogs(2026)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
  • Butcher: Invisible Wounds (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    Music Score Producer

  • The Dinosaurs(2026)

    Show 4 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all shows
  • Assassin's Creed: Savage Industry (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    Composer

  • The War Between the Land and the Sea (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    Show 5 episodes · Composer

  • The Hack (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    Show 7 episodes · Composer

  • The Cut(2024)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
  • The Naked Gun(2025)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
  • Hallow Road(2025)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
  • The Woman in the Yard(2025)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films
  • We Are Storror (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    Composer

  • Novocaine(2025)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
  • Carry-On(2024)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
  • Apartment 7A(2024)

    Music Score Producer

    Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
  • Slingshot(2024)

    Music Score Producer

    Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films
  • Decoded(2024)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
  • Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F(2024)

    Composer · Conductor

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
  • Bad Boys: Ride or Die(2024)

    Composer · Vocals

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
  • Young Woman and the Sea(2024)

    Music Score Producer

    Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
  • Argylle(2024)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
  • Stockholm Bloodbath(2023)

    Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films
  • Life on Our Planet(2023)

    Show 8 episodes · Composer · Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows
  • Gran Turismo(2023)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
  • When We Danced (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Music Producer

  • Ghosted(2023)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
  • Tetris(2023)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
  • Black Adam(2022)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
  • Ticket to Paradise(2022)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
  • Secret Headquarters(2022)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
  • The Forgiven(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all films
  • Top Gun: Maverick(2022)

    Music Score Producer

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
  • Infinite Storm(2022)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all films
  • Ambulance(2022)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
  • Man vs. Bee(2022)

    Show Composer

    Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all shows
  • Mayflies(2022)

    Show Composer

    Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
  • Silent Night(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
  • The Wheel of Time(2021)

    Show 16 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all shows
  • Dopesick(2021)

    Show 8 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
  • The Tomorrow War(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films
  • Skyanders: Awaken of Evil (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Composer

  • Black Widow(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
  • Resurrection (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Composer

  • Rumble(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films
  • Outside the Wire(2021)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
  • Songbird(2020)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films
  • The Reagans(2020)

    Show 4 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all shows
  • Jungleland(2019)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
  • Military Wives(2019)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
  • Rebuilding Paradise(2020)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
  • Bad Boys for Life(2020)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films
  • 6 Underground(2019)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
  • Master Moley by Royal Invitation (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Composer

  • His Dark Materials(2019)

    Show 23 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all shows
  • Gemini Man(2019)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all films
  • Where's My Roy Cohn?(2019)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
  • Ad Astra(2019)

    Additional Music

    Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
  • Apex Legends Stories from the Outlands "Voidwalker" (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Composer

  • Driven(2018)

    Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
  • Pennyworth(2019)

    Show 20 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
  • Looking Up(2019)

    Theme Song Performance

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
  • Crawl(2019)

    Executive Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
  • Georgetown(2019)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
  • This Is Football(2019)

    Show Composer

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all shows
  • The Cry(2018)

    Show 4 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all shows
  • Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
  • Studio 54(2018)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
  • Pacific Rim: Uprising(2018)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
  • The Hurricane Heist(2018)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
  • 12 Strong(2018)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
  • Adam: The Prophet (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Composer

  • Geostorm(2017)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films
  • The Florida Project(2017)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
  • Adam: The Mirror (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Composer

  • Zygote (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Composer

  • Firebase (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Composer

  • Rakka (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Composer

  • Le Mans: Racing Is Everything(2017)

    Show 6 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all shows
  • Churchill(2017)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
  • Ghost in the Shell(2017)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
  • The Lego Batman Movie(2017)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
  • The Crown(2016)

    Show 14 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
  • War on Everyone(2016)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films
  • 13 Hours(2016)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
  • Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Composer

  • Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all shows
  • American Hero(2015)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all films
  • Captive(2015)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all films
  • Summer of '92(2015)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
  • Terminator Genisys(2015)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
  • Wasted Beauty (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Composer

  • Dough(2015)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
  • Home(2015)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films
  • Bone in the Throat(2015)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all films
  • Sons of Liberty(2015)

    Show 3 episodes · Composer

    Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all shows
  • A.D. The Bible Continues(2015)

    Show Composer

    Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all shows
  • Saints & Strangers(2015)

    Show Composer

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all shows
  • Manny(2014)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
  • Gloria(2014)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
  • The Driver (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Show 3 episodes · Composer

  • Blackwood(2014)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films
  • Almost Home (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Composer

  • Son of God(2014)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
  • Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Composer

  • Above and Beyond(2014)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
  • Making a Scene | 11 Performances (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

    Composer

  • Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
  • Side by Side (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

    Composer

  • Red Wing(2013)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
  • Salinger(2013)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
  • The Frozen Ground(2013)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
  • Girl Rising(2013)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
  • Restless (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Show 2 episodes · Composer

  • The Sweeney(2012)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films
  • Five(2011)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
  • Ironclad(2011)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films
  • Rango(2011)

    Additional Music

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
  • The Dilemma(2011)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
  • J.A.W. (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Composer

  • Megamind(2010)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
  • Sodales (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

    Composer

  • Inception(2010)

    Additional Music

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
  • Sherlock Holmes(2009)

    Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
  • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa(2008)

    Additional Music

    Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
  • Iron Man(2008)

    Additional Music

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
  • The Ties That Bind Us(2008)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
  • Mystery of the Megavolcano (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

    Composer

  • Over the Hedge(2006)

    Thanks

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
  • Batman Begins(2005)

    Music Programmer

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
  • Shoebox Zoo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    Show 26 episodes · Composer

  • Ancient Warriors (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    Composer

  • Animal Park(2000)

    Show Composer

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all shows
  • The Species (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Composer

Career shape

A full career of 135 titles, 133 of them dated from 2003 to 2026.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Music131 of 135: 129 only music, 2 with another role · typical Midcredits score60thOther crew6 of 135: 4 only other crew, 2 with another role · typical Midcredits score70th

By decade

2000s10 · crew2010s70 · crew2020s53 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

Awards

1 major award from 8 major nominations, 2009–2023.

WinNomination
  1. 2023
    • Grammy Award, nominated · Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
  2. 2017
    • Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
  3. 2014
    • BAFTA Award, nominated · Best Original Music
  4. 2013
    • Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score)
    • BAFTA Award, nominated · Best Original Music
  5. 2012
    • BAFTA Award, nominated · Best Original Music
  6. 2010
    • BAFTA Award, nominated · Best Original Score
  7. 2009
    • Grammy Award, won · Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

How do Lorne Balfe's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 60th percentile, the median of all 96; across their 70 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 53rd percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

53rdpercentile
Typical film, the median of 70

Approval · how many liked their films

55thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 70

Reach · how many have seen their films

91stpercentile
Typical film, the median of 70

Midcredits score across 114 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up33
  • 50th to 74th39
  • 25th to 49th31
  • Below 25th11

Shape of the crowd

51 of their 114 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Loved15
  • Loved with Detractors1
  • Divisive2
  • Cult Classic3
  • Crowd Pleaser51
  • Broadly Agreed21
  • Mixed21

Reviewers score the sound and music 60/100 in their films, across 62 reviewed titles; fans 68, detractors 42. The element that speaks to their work as a composer.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Is Lorne Balfe's work okay for kids?

Across up to 56 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore and frightening / intense run heavier than most films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore49 titles27–87 · median 57 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity56 titles11–51 · median 23 · mildnear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity49 titles14–86 · median 45 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 36
Alcohol & Drugs47 titles10–48 · median 29 · mildnear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 33
Frightening / Intense49 titles32–74 · median 50 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 39

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.

Who does Lorne Balfe work with?

People who share at least 2 of Lorne Balfe's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Hans Zimmer shares the most, 7.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers

Mixed roles